Watchcase pendant



Feb. 17; 1931. E. NELSON 1,792,700

WATCHCASE PENDANT Original Filed June 16, 1925 abbozweqs inafterspecified in detail, and succinctl 1 dlatentecl Feb. 17, 1931 UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE WATCHCASE PENDANT Application iiled June 16, 1925,Serial No. 37,534. Renewed December 28, 1927.

My invention relates to watch cases, and has for its object theproduction of a watch case having a bow that is incorporated wi h asupporting member in which no or more apertures are provided forauxiliary or inde pendent attachment to it of a watch chain, strap, fob,or the like.

Such attachment is usually made exclusive ly to the bow which is, byreason of is construction, necessarily more or less inse My in ion isintended to olier addit'onal or better security for the making of'suchattachment, and is of special value in watches when used by mechanics orworkmen, and which when so used are likely to en ountet: exposure torough usage or liability to of being pulled or dropped from the pocketor falling from the hand. of the user.

What constitutes my inven hererile.

fined in the appended claim.

In. the accompanying drai ing, Figure I is a view of an embodiment of rinveitio n present preferred form shown 7/ '31 side elevation a watch c2se and its iendant a. view of the same taken at to the view shown inFigure to the numerals on the d a watch case wh ch may be I, table andpr f rredmat 'ahshape, and dimensions, and which is shown as oneprovided with a rotatable stem win tler or crown The parts 1 and :2 maybe of any usual and preferred description.

My invention consists in providing for an ordinary bow 3 a supportngmember 4-. which firmly secured to or me e part of the watch after themanner, for example, of the usual pendant.

In. its presentpreferred form, the bow 8 is oblong in contour andprovided with oppositely extcndin hinge lugs 5 and 6, which the shape ofthe member 4 is made to accommodate snugly and to protect.

Besides provision of the usual bow 8, the member a is provided with oneor more, preferably by two laterally disposed, apertures 7 and 8 formedin the body of the member 4. Said apertures may be of any continuous orbroken contour preferred, those of the oval shape illustrated, havingtheir longitudinal axes disposed at oblique angles to each other and toan intermediate diameter of the case, being of a symmetry that isprefei'able.

The means preferred for connection with the lugs 5 and 6, respectively,consist of standards 9 and 10 extending from the member 4.

Those are preferred because they flank the crown 2, and partially encasethe same with protective effect.

The supporting member 4 is provided on the outer sides of the respectivestandards 9 and 10 with alined recesses that are substantiallycoextensive in length with the lugs 5 and 6 and to which lu thelongitudinal sides of Said recesses are juxtaposed. Into those recessesthe said lugs are, in assemblage, fitted with the protective efi'ectupon them already indicated, the apertures 7 and 8 being disposed in themember l between the axis of the crown 2, and the edges of said member,and between the periphery of the case 1 and the lugs, aforesaid.

In use an ordinary chain or the like may be attached to the bow 3exclusively, or if preferred the chain may be provided with auxiliarymeans of attaching it to the defining wall of one or both of theapertures 78. If an ordinary chain be used, it may be attached either tothe bow 3 or to one or the other of the apertures defined as specified.

lVhat I claim is:

In a watch case, the combination with its body and a supporting memberfirmly fixed thereto, of standards projecting from the supportingmember, a winding' crown intermediate the standards, the supportingmember having alined recesses on the outer sides of the respectivestandards, a bow pivoted to the standards by means of oppositelyextending hinge lugs provided on the bow that are substantiallycoextensive length with said recess and are juxtaposed to and mo tectedby walls defining the length of said recesses.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

EMIL NELSON.

